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Got 3-Minutes to Nominate Us?

SD Times is asking for nominations for their annual innovation and leadership awards. We’d love to have your support. The nomination form asks you to fill out only 4 fields. The hardest will be #3: “In your own words, please describe what the nominee did, in calendar year 2007, that demonstrated innovation and leadership in […]

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Manual WTF

Probably the funniest argument in favor of using a bug tracker was posted yesterday by Alex Papadimoulis at DailyWTF. “Within a month, I came to realize how valuable a bug tracking system was in every aspect of software development, from keeping track of the countless little changes to quickly being able to blame everyone else […]

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Jira and Bug Trackers at Codesqueeze

“7 Ways To Piss Me Off and Not Buy Your Software” That was a the title of a blog post last September at Codesqueeze, a blog run by Maxfield Pool, who happens to be a .NET developer, Atlassian customer, and all-around nice guy. The posting title and content caught my attention. We sent Max some […]

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Sunny Days ahead for Sydney Java Developers

Australians, you’re in luck! Get out your party hat and head on over to Sun Tech Days in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, or Canberra. The Sydney event is by far the biggest. It takes place 4-6 March at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. Our very own Mike Cannon-Brookes will be speaking on […]

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Agile Project Management with Jira

A few months ago I blogged about “Jira”:http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira becoming a “platform for other software tools”:http://atlassian.reaktivdev.com/news/2007/10/jira_plugins_an.html. I had mentioned several applications that had been built on top of Jira (or maybe you’d prefer to draw a diagram showing them side by side… no matter!). One that I hadn’t mentioned was from “VersionOne”:http://www.versionone.com/, “the leading project planning […]

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Confluence connects with Lotus Connections

At “Lotusphere”:http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2008/ today, “IBM announced”:http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2008/01/lotusphere-20-2.html an integration they developed to connect “Atlassian Confluence with Lotus Connections”:http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf. Lotus Connections is a platform for social computing that includes blogs, workflow, and now the world’s “most popular enterprise wiki”:http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence. We were told that the solution would first be rolled out internally before being made available to customers. “IBM […]

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Europe… here we come!

Say “G’Day” to our newest developers in our Eastern European office. It’s a bit early for a press release to announce the new office — we should probably wait for them to finish unpacking! — but we thought it was a good time to start spreading the news. Long story short, a team of developers […]

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Top 7 Reasons to See Us at SDWest

7. You can say “G’Day” in your best Aussie accent to an Atlassian. 6. You will be mesmerised, perhaps even entranced, when you see Fisheye and Bamboo demoed on two 30″ Apple Cinema displays. 5. JOLT Award night… see if Atlassian Confluence, Crowd, Clover, and Fisheye walk away with the gold! 4. There’s always a […]

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Top 3 Reasons to Start Your Wiki in 2008

The reasons The best damn enterprise wiki is served up your way… shared hosting, dedicated hosting, or the most popular behind-the-firewall edition Wikipatterns.com is a free resource to help you make it successful Wikipatterns the book has been published! The book For months, Stewart — who sits across from me in the office — toiled […]

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Vote for Atlassian in the Crunchies

What a great way to end the year! Atlassian has been nominated for the Crunchies! 82,000 nominations were made for thousands of individual startups. The top startups in each of twenty categories have made it to the final vote. Starting now, you can vote for the startups you think are most worthy in each of […]

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An Insiders Look: Part 1 of 2 on how we (Atlassian) collaborate

Before working at Atlassian, I had worked at a 60-person company with offices in Boston and San Francisco. Communication was terrible. Talk about being dysfunctional! (1) People on both coasts had no idea what the others were doing. (2) Email was a terrible way to collaborate on anything, but it’s what we relied on. That, […]

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Software Test & Performance Reviews Clover 2

Clover 2 is written up(PDF) in the December issue of Software Test & Performance magazine. “With the release of Clover 2.0, Atlassian Software Systems improved not just the code coverage the tool reports, but also the way its coverage is presented, enhancing its usefulness to testers.” Not sure what Clover is? Clover is a code […]

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(Video) The SharePoint Connector for Confluence

Here’s an interview I did last week with Jonathan Nolen about the SharePoint Connector for Confluence. The Connector has been very popular; there have been well north of 250 downloads of the Connector since our announcement last October. When we launched it, we had wanted to have a video showing all the features, but couldn’t […]

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Technology is a man’s world…. NOT

We’ve recently sponsored two SF Bay Area women’s events and just agreed to sponsor a third, so it seemed like as good a time as any to blog about it. The sponsored events include Girls in Tech, She’s Geeky, and the upcoming Women 2.0. All the blame or kudos 🙂 for our involvement really belongs […]

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Clustering Jira

For the last few weeks, Gianugo Rabellino with our Italian partner SourceSense, has been excitedly emailing us about some BIG news. Today at last they are able to finally announce it: clustering support for Jira. Sourcesense is proud to announce the first beta of Scarlet, a clustering solution for Atlassian Jira bringing high-availability and scalability […]